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  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interim results — A company's interim results are the set of figures, published outside the regular times, that show whether it has achieved a profit or a loss.
  • interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
  • interlacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
  • intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
  • interuniversity — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • introsusception — intussusception.
  • inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • john ousterhout — (person)   /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: [email protected]
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • junior minister — politics
  • jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
  • juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
  • justice in eyre — a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
  • knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
  • knuckle-dusters — brass knuckles.
  • kreutzer sonata — a sonata for violin and piano (1803, Op. 47) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
  • lancaster sound — an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
  • langres plateau — a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel
  • leibnitz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • manasseh cutler — Manasseh, 1742–1823, U.S. Congregational clergyman and scientist: promoted settlement of Ohio; congressman 1801–05.
  • manual steering — Manual steering is steering in which the driver does all the work, without the help of mechanical power.
  • measurement ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
  • menstrual cycle — (in women of reproductive age) the cycle of physiological changes affecting the reproductive organs that takes place typically over a month and includes ovulation, thickening of the lining of the womb and menstruation if fertilization of the egg has not occurred
  • meritoriousness — The property of being meritorious.
  • miner's lettuce — winter purslane.
  • mis-measurement — the act of measuring.
  • mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
  • monounsaturated — of or noting a class of fats that lack a hydrogen bond at one point on the carbon chain and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
  • montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
  • mortiferousness — deadliness
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • motor insurance — insurance for a motor vehicle such as a car, which provides protection against loss in the event of an accident, theft, etc
  • mountain rescue — search and rescue conducted on a mountain, for example of someone who has fallen, got lost, etc
  • mules operation — the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike
  • multiprocessing — the simultaneous execution of two or more programs or instruction sequences by separate CPUs under integrated control.
  • muscle relaxant — A muscle relaxant is any drug which relaxes muscles and may be used to treat muscle spasms and muscle pain.
  • naismith's rule — a rule of thumb for calculating the time needed for a climbing expedition, allowing 1 hour for every 3 miles of distance plus 1 hour for every 2000 feet of height
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